...On Pale Green Walls Clare Wigfall wrote the short story “On Pale Green Walls” in 1997. It is about the conflicts and misunderstandings between children and adults, in the upbringing. It is about how children’s curiosity can be misunderstood and lead to frustration in adults. In this case Violet’s strive for love, attention and understanding. The adults misunderstand her signals, which leads to this enormous frustration and uncomprehending for Violet. Furthermore, a major theme is religion, in this case, Christianity, and its impact on our society. The first person narrator and the main character Violet, is a very honest little girl. She doesn’t say a lot, but she is very aware of the environment around her. She is curious and she is always trying to get attention and love from adults, especially her parents. It is natural, little children, like her, are trying to get attention and love. This is the main reason for the excitement in the church, where Violet notices a picture of a beautiful woman in a blue dress in the church. Afterwards, Violet deeply admires the woman. She doesn’t know that the woman is the Virgin Mary - the holy mother of Jesus. When Violet sees the picture of Mary holding Jesus on the front-page of the newspaper she gets jealous, just like other kids, who are unable to share their mother with some other kid. “I stared at the baby’s face and hated it as I’d never hated anything before. She was looking down on it, smiling at its bald head, and I...
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...ON PALE GREEN WALLS . The short story “On Pale Green Walls” is written by Clara Wigfall in 1997. The short story is about Violet and her parents who doesn’t get along, they do not understand each other and their needs. Violet struggle for getting some love and attention from her parent, but her parent do not understand her signals. Religion is one the main themes of this short story, Violets parents is true Christian, and believe in their priest’s advice. The main character in the short story is Violet, she is a very honest and quiet little girl, but she knows what’s going on around her. Violet loves, like every other child, when she gets attention from adults and especially their parents. She is very curious about everything, there is going on. An example is when Violet and her family are in the church, and Violet suddenly notices a very beautiful woman on the wall. She gets all Violets attention. Afterwards Violet starts to admire this woman, and everywhere she goes, this beautiful woman is too. Violet doesn’t know that it is the Virgin Mary, she saw. One day the Virgin Mary also is on the front page of her father’s newspaper, yet with a little baby boy in her arms. When Violet sees that, she gets so angry and jealous. I think she feels in some way that this woman was her “mother”, it was Violet she should love and not that baby boy, who is Jesus, she feels Jesus takes...
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...Essay about: On Pale Green Walls - Mikkel Vinther ”On Pale Green Walls” is a short story written by Clare Wigfall in 1997. The main theme of the short story is the relationship between children and their parents about upbringing and education. The author wants to show how children’s curiosity and wondering can be misunderstood by the adults and leads to frustration but also, how children, in this case Violet, have a desperate need for attention, understanding and love. Another theme is Christianity and religion. The short story sets medias res on a cold day where a little girl, the main character, “pretends to be smoking, clamping imaginary cigarettes between her lips before exhaling with a billowy mist of breath”(Line 3). The girl and her family are on their way to church to celebrate Christmas. The girl, Violet, is little and curious. Even though she’s mute she is still interested and aware of the environment. She has a really lively imagination and when she walks in to the church her eyes catches a painting of a woman dressed in blue. The painting is surrounded by lots of candles, and is placed “higher than the rest of us”(line 28). At this time, she’s not aware that she’s looking at Virgin Mary – the holy mother of Jesus. She loves her. The relation and connection she feels talks to her in a way she does not know. This scene brings us to the whole conflict of the text and a big change in Violets life and mind. Because then, on a Sunday, she is drawing an imaginary painting...
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...On pale green walls The short story, ”On pale green walls” is written by Clare Wigfall and published in 1997. The story is about a mute girl named Violet, who lives in a religious family. One day she notices Virgin Mary, as a statue in the church, a beautiful woman in a blue dress and white shawl over her head, and she strongly catches Violet’s attention. Violet begins noticing her in many different places and immediately feels very connected to this woman. As Violet is just a little child she has no idea, who Virgin Mary is and her relations to Jesus and God. One-Day Violet notices her on the front page of the newspaper that her father is reading, only this time she is holding a baby in her arms. She gets very jealous and mad to see the love and affection Virgin Mary seem to feel for this baby, and Violet reacts by perforating the baby’s eyes and drawing red out of its mouth to look like blood stains. When her parents see this they get very angry and concerned to see their daughter’s, almost sadistic, behavior. The misunderstanding leads us to the main themes in this short story, which is the lack of communication between a little child and adults. Violet’s mother can’t see why she would want to hurt the baby, who in this case, is actually Jesus. We are not told the age of Violet, but implicit we can tell that she is very young. An example is when she gets frightened by an old man and hides between her mother’s legs. In this sentence; “Frightened by his wrinkles, I shrank...
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.../ written by Jens Jeppesen Pale green walls is a short story by Clara Wigfall from 1997. The short story is about the relationship between a child and it´s parents and about upbringing. In this short story, the parents are having problems with understanding Violets view of an Image in a newspaper which leads to big frustrations from both of her parents. The story is also very focused around Christianity. This essay will dig deeper into the story and try to analyze Violet describing how she sees the environment. The main theme in the short story is upbringing. The short story clearly shows the need of love, attention, and understanding from parents to its children. In this case Violet Is dealing with the need of love from Virgin Mary. She is struggling with jealousy in Mary loving another child, and her struggles becomes a frustration for her parents. The priests describes her signs of jealousy as “Very worrying” and none of them really realizes that she’s only just a child and how should she understand what Christianity is about in such an young age. It really shows how important it is not to worry too much when trying to understand your child and instead show her all of the love she in this case defiantly is searching for. All of this really comes down to upbringing and how sometimes you need to let kids be kids. Violet in a very young girl and are going through a state of her childhood where she tries to understand a lot of things. She is mute which affect her relationship...
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...On Pale Green Walls English Essay Every action we do often has a deeper meaning. If we hit someone, it is most likely because we are mad at them. If we kiss someone, it is maybe an act of love, or just physical attraction. When children do something, it is noticed very by the world around, because it might say something about the development of their personality and who they will grow up to be. They act on their feelings, emotions and thoughts. On Pale Green Walls is a short story written by Clare Wigfall in 2007. The short story takes place around christmas time in an unknown city, where a little girl named violet lives with her family. I believe the main themes in this short story to be: love, hate, jealousy, acceptance, fascination and despair. We are through the text following the life of Violet and her first meeting and impression of one specific woman. “I remember the first time i saw her. […] She stood higher than the rest of us, surrounded be candles”. In this quotation Violets first meeting with the women is described, but also the fact that it is no ordinary woman. The little girl has gotten a fascination of the Virgin Mary. The first glance she laid on her was probably a statue standing in the city to celebrate christmas. She is after this moment upsets with the Virgin Mary, and notices her everywhere she goes. It is in the following quotation told, that the are pictures of the virgin many places that she’s been before, for example and described...
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...On Pale Green Walls B: Analysis and interpretation of ”On Pale Green Walls” Word count: 969 Clare Wigfall’s short story”On Pale Green Walls” explores some of the most important aspects of growing up as a child. It explores concepts such as the curiosity of a child and the relationship between adult and child, the importance of there being a good understanding between the two, and the jealousy and misunderstandings that come as a result of a bad relationship. Life is harsh and full of disappointments, especially growing up as a child while being neglected by your parents. The mute protagonist of the story, Violet, is forced to realise this at a very early age. We follow Violet through this moment of realization. During a church attending just before Christmas the main character Violet sees a painting of a beautiful woman in blue dress. Not realising that this woman is a painting of Mother Mary she mistakes her for a real person. This gentle woman is starkly different from her own strict mother who lambasts her every action. Thus she begins to greatly admire Mother Mary whom she begins to see everywhere. Thus one day when she sees a picture of Mother Mary lovingly holding the baby Jesus in a newspaper the jealousy swells inside here and she stabs his eyes with a pencil and draws blood on him. Greatly disturbed by this her mother takes her to a priest. While there she once more sees Mother Mary with the baby Jesus. As her mother slowly grows more disappointed in her she comes...
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...Between Edward and Peg, in the back seat, the top of Peg's blue Avon case can be seen, above that the beige leather back seats are visible. Above the back seats, reaching to the same level as the rear-view mirror, is the black back dash shelf of the car, while pieces of the view from the rear windshield are seen above it, interrupted by the rear-view mirror, Peg and Edward's heads, and the chassis outline of the car (window and door frames). To far left and right hand side the view of the town outside the car can also be seen, interrupted at points by the door and window frames. Most of the colors in the outside view are bright pastels, except for the grey asphalt and bright green grass in the lawns. Several people are shown walking, with dogs, or playing in the background as the car drives by. Parts of peoples' houses, cars, and nearly identical mailboxes are also visible, including a house that is covered in a blue and orange striped fumegation tarp. The rear windshield, windows, backseat top edges, and front seat top edges create several “frames within a frame” and emphasize the frame's depth of...
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...1- THE SURVIVOR The nightmare haunted Abel with vicious delight. Sleeping became a phobia for this broken soul. A trembling golden "Chai" symbol, meaning "to live" in Hebrew, hung from a chain around his neck. He ran as if his life depended on it, through a claustrophobic, purple corridor that seemed to stretch on forever. Fancy ceiling chandeliers emitted a soft gloom on the grayish, stone ground. Weird fantasy-like painting, framed in gold, covered the side walls. They represented mythical monsters: a red hydra, a muscled Minotaur, a graceful white glowing Pegasus, tons of dragons and monsters of all kinds. They strained their necks and eyes, following the running, exhausted man. Abel Abravanel was a slightly athletic man in his mid-20s....
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...She was an accomplished surgeon in the field of gynaecology and had always been determined to find a cure for breast cancer. It had become deadly serious for her when she became riddled with breast cancer herself. The experimental cure she found was in the form of the green mask made of synthetic cells. Once fused with her face, it had halted the spread of the cancer cells for years, but sadly not forever. If only he could have helped her discover a full cure… Still, her work had made her famous. He had always glowed with pride for her. Now he felt cold and empty. Lost without her. At the funeral, she was not there to oversee it, so he had been at the back while her blood relatives took all the front rows in the...
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...On pale green walls by Clare Wigfall In this world there are a lot of people nearly 7 billion, and these people have families and are part of families. The way we bring up our children is our own choice, but it is a choice that has a lot of importance, whether we bring them up to be independent, in a religious belief or, to rely on their parents to take care of them. Upbringing and how children’s curiosity can sometimes be misunderstood are some of things we experience in the text “On Pale Green Walls” by Clare Wigfall. The story is about a mute little girl who has a fascination with the Virgin Mary. The story is told from her point of view and we only know what she knows. The story starts out in medias res, with the family on their way to church. The story starts at the church and ends at the church, the whole story is centered mainly around religious objects, and the most visible theme is religion. At church Violet notices this beautiful lady dressed in blue, Violet is transfixed with her, she does not know or realize that this lady is the Virgin Mary, and her description of her makes it a bit unclear if she is real or a painting. Violet keeps this near obsessive fascination with her throughout the story, So much that at one point when she sees the image of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus, on the cover of her dads’ newspaper, she gets so jealous and angry that she draws crudely on the baby hacking out the eyes, which shocks both her parents. In the beginning of...
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...wonderful family which included my husband, a little girl named Carmen and a little boy named Cameron, and a fluffy dog, named Spot. Together we would live happily in a nice neighborhood. When someone walks in they would be greeted by my massive two tier chandelier in the corridor. It would be filled with painting from world known artist. To the left there would be the den that would have decorated in chocolate and cream. There would be a chocolate leather couch, a chocolate leather chair and ataman. On the couch there will be cream throw pillows and a cream and tan blanket draped over the back of the couch. On the right of the corridor, there will be the kitchen. The kitchen would be the most vibrant room in the house. The walls in the kitchen would be a pale pink with rose lining. The appliances would be stainless steel and black in color. The tablecloth and curtains would change every week, but on this specific day, they were a marigold with pink and purple trimming. Straight ahead is the hallway that would lead to upstairs. Walking up the grand staircase that had 32 plush carpeted stairs you will see the banister that will be hand crafted by my brother who wants to be an architect. On the left of the staircase it will be my children’s room. Carmen would have everything pink, purple and white. She would have a canopy bed that had a silver canopy. Over in Cameron room, his room would be blue, red and black. He would have a bed that resembles a wrestling ring. Walking out of...
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...a place where memories were made and where I spent every summer as a child all the way up to adulthood. It was….the house on the lake. It was a pale green (almost a hospital green), two-story house sitting on an acre of land. Pecan and pine trees fill the yard. Off to the right was a small, rickety shed filled with fishing poles and tackle. The door squeaked when you opened it and inside it smelled of bait. Beside it was another shed, a bit bigger yet still rickety, with life jackets and every kind of blow-up float you could have imagined. The lake was approximately 50 feet from the house and had a 20 foot u-shaped pier with round, metal railings. Sitting on the ground beside the pier was a small, metal, two-person boat with no trolling motor and two wooden oars, which we used often for fishing. A few feet in front of the pier was what I like to call a “gutting station.” It consisted of a 4’ X 5’ table with a built-in sink for skinning and gutting fish and it smelled of fish guts. Despite the constant smell of fish, the pier was where I spent most of my time, laying out and diving. The house was set up in such a way that made everything easily accessible. The lower level consisted of two 750 square foot rooms. The front room had a wall of windows (with no window coverings) which overlooked the lake. Along the back wall were two double beds that faced...
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...One way to get off I suddenly awoke from the deep sleep that drugged my mind. Darkness engulfed me. I found myself in a compacted room that was filled with a metallic smell. I tried to move my hands from behind my back but there was a great force that was restraining my movement. A thundering noise echoed through the shadows. It frightened me to my very soul. I was trapped in between the dull grey walls. The hard metal cuffs were biting into the flesh of my wrists. A moan came from the cubicle next to me. I could feel a frisson of fear surging inside of me, gnawing away at my soul. Terrified. I asked in a trembling voice; “Who are you?” A startling voice replied back; “I am Irene. I do not know how I came here” Soon enough my hands were free, and the doors to the cubicle drastically opened. Light shone on Irene’s face, her eyes glistening and her brown hair shining. She wore a shaggy, black button down top and dirty work boots. She seemed frightened from the darkness, but her skin was so porcelain, both pale and perfect. I couldn’t get over the fact that her face looked like a perfect china doll you’d purchase at an antique store. Her lips were a glowing red, and her jaw was so pointed, falling perfectly with her diamond shaped face. Her forehead was rather wide, her eyes almond, her noise pointed and her mouth, a cupid’s bow. Her teeth were perfect. And she had very high cheekbones. Her face would get the attention of anybody, but her clothes were such shabby things. But...
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...influence and make people buy their products. Colours that influence the way people buy: Red Red is appetising and commonly used into market food. Red attracts the attention of buyers as it is literally the first colour they see. The red colour appears on nearly every food label. It stimulate emotional responses and also apparently prompts appetite, this explains why most restaurant and kitchen uses the red accent on walls. Yellow Yellow make people happy and is very common colour in food marketing. Yellow indicates joyfulness and hopefulness and overall good feelings. The brain produce serotonin ‘happy hormone’ when people see yellow. Food marketers use yellow`s feelings power as it bring back those emotional experiences and use it generously in branding their products. Green Green is synonyms of natural and healthy. Green is also associated with sustainability, environment-friendly products, and organic products. Subsequently, the colour green is now linked with healthy body and well-being in food advertising, and food labels frequently feature the colour green together with claims of freshness or natural...
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